RU Curious? returns to Schlow Library for an interview with Dr. Amara Solari, Professor of Art History and Anthropology, that blends art history and archaeology.  The interview will be conducted by Micaela Wiehe, a graduate student in the History department. 

Solari is an art historian who studies objects created by Maya artists used during the Catholic conversion campaigns of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Yucatán Peninsula.  Although her research is informed by archaeological investigations, Amara’s own studies are based on methods commonly used in art history, such as close looking, archival inquiries, and material characterization. In her most recent project, Amara is researching 25 churches that were constructed by Maya stonemasons and subsequently painted by Maya muralists to identify moments of Indigenous agency during Spanish colonization.